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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by monocasa on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:42AM (#16071696)
A lot of Maxim's offerings, at least, are startups that they acquired. That seems to be a large chunk of their business model, acquire rather than put in all the R&D themselves.

The specific chips I know of have ARM cores in them.

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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by InitialLastName on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:23PM (#16075051)
I wouldn't call Maxim a startup, nor would I guess that their market reach approaches anything like the 95% figure above.
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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by monocasa on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:35PM (#16076038)
Maxim acquires startups, not is a startup themselves. A good chunk of their products are one offs from firms that won the startup lottery.
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